by Brian | Apr 11, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
There are many reasons to recommend this book. It has lovely recipes, with ingredients and techniques that will be new to you. Very new I can assure you. And the authors, Fran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baëta are team mates with prestigious resumes and enormous...
by Brian | Apr 11, 2017 | Recipes
We are all a tad spoiled. We can walk into a supermarket now and it almost, just almost, doesn’t matter what season we are in. We can find anything. Watermelons in February. Berries year round. Asparagus all the time … Oh, no. We can’t do that. Not for everything is...
by Brian | Apr 10, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
For many of us, Easter is the time we enjoy lamb. And about the only time. Each year Americans eat about 30 million cattle, 110 million hogs, but only 2 million sheep. In other nations with different culinary cultures, lamb is far more of a staple protein. In...
by Brian | Apr 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last month I posted this recipe using the picture from the book. We made it. And I wanted to share our results. We bought lovely croissants from Arcade Bakery on Church Street in Lower Manhattan. Roger, the baker, is a world class artisan. The bake here was...
by Brian | Apr 6, 2017 | Recipes
I love my Bananas Foster. My agreement with Suzi, Clause 4.3.1a in the marriage contract, is that I can make it once a year. Here’s a post from a couple of years ago with British Isles take on Bananas Foster that even Suzi likes. Rum is good. Suzi’s lawyer was a...
